How Citrix Supports Digital Transformation In Education
When I started working in education about 20 years ago, there was one computer in our school: the device was placed on the desk of our accountant, right besides an electric typewriter. Obviously, this has changed a lot since those days.
While yesterday there was not much more than a couple of personal computers and printers, today our equipment includes Thin Clients, PCs, Notebooks, Tablets, Smartphones, MFPs, 3D-Printers, Plotters, Cutters, CNC, Projectors, Visualizers, HoloLens, etc. The school has also moved from a Microsoft only shop to a very diverse place with devices running on Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Android, iOS and Linux. Word and Excel are not the only software tools anymore – Browsers, Office 365, learning apps and platforms, multimedia, graphics, line of business applications, CAD/CIM joined the toolbox.
However, probably the biggest change is how today’s faculty and students teach and learn. They both expect us to provide reliable, performant and modern services enabling them to work at any time, on any device from any place. That is where Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, former Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, come into play. As a modern vocational college we encourage students to adopt our bring your own device strategy (BYOD) and actively support our faculty members by equip them with modern mobile corporate-owned, personally enabled devices (COPE).
Citrix App Virtualization and VDI allows us cost-effective, secure delivery of applications and desktops to any device and give students, faculty and employees the freedom to learn, teach and work from anywhere while cutting IT costs and complexity.
